Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. There have been new arrests in this weeks berlin Christmas Market truck attack that killed 12 people and injured 56 others. Today, police in tunisia arrested the nephew of accused attacker anis amri and two other suspected militants. Tunisias interior Ministry Says amris 18yearold nephew had contact with amri through an encrypted messaging app. All three are suspected of belonging to the same terrorist cell and having contacts with the accused terrorist. The Ministry Says amri, who had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video, was recruiting his nephew to join him in europe. All three are being held in detention pending further investigation. Its unclear whether the suspects assisted amri in fleeing berlin after the attack. Amri was killed early friday in a shootout with police in a suburb of milan, italy. In syria this weekend, civilians are returning to neighborhoods in eastern aleppo for the first time in nearly five years. The syrian army says it has completely retaken aleppo and brought security and safety to the heavily damaged city. After days of calm, syrian state tv reported that air strikes in rebelheld areas near aleppo had resumed, killing at least five people. And inside aleppo, an explosive device left behind by rebels injured at least three people. On thursday, the last group of rebel fighters were evacuated to opposition held areas outside of the city. Under a deal brokered by turkey and russia, convoys of busses and cars have taken both civilians and rebel fighters out of the city since late last week. In nigeria, the president claimed today that the Boko Haram Militant Group has been driven from its last base in the massive Sambisa Forest. In a statement posted on social media, president Muhammadu Buhari said the group was on the run and no longer have a place to hide. But the threat is far from over, with reports that the militants are regrouping at other bases in nigeria. One faction of boko haram is allied with the Islamic State. The Sambisa Forest enclave is where boko haram was believed to be holding some of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 from the town of chibok. Most of the girls remain missing. Despite commitments to the latest truce by the rebels and leaders of ukraine and russia, a new ceasefire that was to have taken effect last night at midnight in time for christmas has not taken hold. The Ukrainian Government and russiabacked separatist rebels both allege multiple violations of the truce. The rebels claim ukrainian troops shelled them at least 140 times. The conflict that began more than two years ago when russia annexed crimea has claimed almost 10,000 lives. A number of opposition lawmakers in poland wont be home for the holidays. Theyve taken up temporary residence in the empty Parliament Building in warsaw and plan to stay there until parliament returns january 11. The sitin is to protest moves by polands ruling populist law and Justice Party which has recently tried to limit certain press freedoms and weaken the constitutional tribunal. One protester said the government is trying, in his words, to build a kind of velvet dictatorship, step by step. Christmas eve celebrations are well under way in the holy land, where thousands of pilgrims and tourists gathered in bethlehems manger square. The top Roman Catholic cleric in the region arrived from jerusalem to celebrate Midnight Mass inside the Fourth Century Church of the nativity, the traditional birthplace of jesus. The obamas teamed up today to deliver their final christmas message from the white house in their weekly address. President obama said the greatest gift he and Michelle Obama have received has been the honor of serving as your president and first lady. They said that tomorrow, they will celebrate the holiday for the last time as first family and remember the eternal message of love, compassion and hope. The idea that we are our brothers keeper and our sisters keeper, that we should treat others as we would want to be treated, that we care for the sick, feed the hungry and welcome the stranger no matter where they come from or how they practice their faith. Those are values that help guide not just my familys christian faith, but that of Jewish Americans and muslim americans; nonbelievers and americans of all backgrounds. And no one better embodies that spirit of service than the men and women who wear our countrys uniform and their families. Sreenivasan read some facts about reindeer that might surprise you. Visit www. Pbs. Org newshour. Sreenivasan the broadway smash hit hamilton has drawn in thousands of audience members with its blend of hiphop and american history, but hamilto is not the only play to fuse hiphop and musical theater. Newshour weekends Ivette Feliciano ventured a few blocks away from where hamilton is playing in new york to the off Broadway Westside theatre. I never knew my pops, moms was a junky raised in the streets with the beats that are funky concrete and metal a child of the ghetto lookin for the loot but there was none for othello. Reporter in their production of othello the remix, rap and theater artists, the q brothers, reimagine the classic William Shakespeare play for a modern hiphop audience. For reallife brothers gq and jq, hiphop is more than a music style; its a way of life. If i go to a workout class, i would rather it be in rhyme. I want everything in life to rhyme. Ordering a sandwich, everything, i want to be in rhyme. You know what i mean . Reporter the only shakespeare play featuring a black protagonist, othello tells the story of a military general who becomes convinced by his resentful underling iago that his wife is cheating on him. The q brothers production transforms othello into a rising hiphop star and iago into a jealous member of his entourage. Othellos rich but he keeps me poor ah, well now its time to settle the score hey, he never lets me get my foot in the door and this is why i hate the moor. Reporter gq plays iago. What do you think hiphop brings out of shakespeare that just a straight performance wouldnt . If you boil shakespeare down and you boil hiphop down to whats left in the pot, the essence, the grit, is storytelling through poetry and musical language. Thats it. Thats all you have. When you bring it to a basic level, thats what shakespeare is; thats what the best hiphop artists are doing. Reporter this isnt the first time the q brothers have fused hiphop with shakespeare. 17 years ago, they created and costarred in the bombitty of errors, based on the bards comedy of errors. Theyve been performing hiphop adaptations of shakespeare ever since. What shakespeare was doing is exactly what we were doing, and we realized that early on. Like, he took the greeks and he rewrote them. And we realized, oh, were just taking the classics from our day and rewriting them, too. So, i think hed be a proponent of what we do. O to the the doublel o they stick with the swell, flow like its velcro classic as a shelltoe sneaker on a bboy take a trip with this star im leonard nimoy. Reporter Postell Pringle plays the shows title character. It requires a certain level of participation back from the audience. When we tell you to, like, get your hands up, like, we are actually speaking to you. Were telling you to get your hands up, you know what i mean . Just like you would in any other hiphop show that you. Hiphop concert that you would go to. Reporter Jackson Doran plays othellos right hand man, cassio. I think what we provide is something that people can tune into that makes more sense in a contemporary context. And also, were doing something that traditional Musical Theatre doesnt do, which is we rap the entire thing from start to finish. We have a dj onstage. Were trying to change the game a little bit in the sense of trying to do Something Different with traditional american Musical Theatre and traditional shakespeare. Reporter pringle believes the story of othellos rise and fall is heightened by the hip hop setting. Coming from nothing and making something out of yourself, thats the story of hiphop all in itself. Making something from nothing, thats what this character does. When somebody starts to corrode that, then you get to play with the jealousy and the paranoia. As an actor, you dream for the opportunity to, like, play that scale of emotion. And then, to get to the point where you get. Where you descend into rage, which, i dont know, speaking somewhat personally, like, is something very cathartic as a black man in america. Reporter although race isnt a prominent feature in othello the remix, the show explores the idea of being an outsider in society, especially in its final song. In a cold, dark and unforgiving system we struggle with our destiny when the world is crumbling, emerge from the rubble, and your love is gonna set you free im an extraterrestrial watching the world spin what am i supposed to do . Feel like im on the outside looking in. Reporter for the q brothers, who are part indian, the song exemplifies their own personal experiences growing up as people of color on chicagos northwest side. Like, we create this stuff on the stage, but its all a representation for our lives. We were born and raised as aliens in a world, like, on the north side of chicago where our dad was the darkest guy for miles and miles around. Like, we were camel jockeys and dot heads. We dont look like it, but, actually, thats what we were called many times. Im figuring this out as we. As we do that last, final song to everyone in the audience. We look everyone in the eye as much as we can until the final phrase. And then, we look up. But every time i say it, i find something new and different about it. Reporter the q brothers and their cast mates are hopeful that in a year full of tensions and divisions, their take on othello can help bring audiences of all different backgrounds closer in their experience of the show. I think its important to find ways to connect with people who may not look or seem like you, always. And you look at our cast and you got two brown kids, a black kid and a white kid. Its like if we all think its funny, youre all probably going to think its funny, you know, or good, or interesting or whatever the adjective you want to put on it. And i made it to the top no, were never gonna stop we aint gonna stop yeah, well always be around well be around sreenivasan as americas young population continues its move back to urban centers, very few cities are able to avoid the complicated conversation surrounding gentrification. Whether punctuated by the arrival of a new organic Grocery Store or a even a boutique mens barber, development brings change and often tension. Newshour weekends Christopher Booker reports on an unlikely tale of gentrification taking place underneath one of portland oregons oldest bridges. Reporter underneath portland, oregons burnside bridge is one of the nations meccas for skateboarding. What started 26 years ago, thi do it yourself concrete skatepark has become part of the portland lore. Its included in many portland travel guides, regularly appears in advertisements and was featured in a bestselling video game franchise. The first little bit of concrete was poured on halloween 1990. Reporter burke morris sits on the burnside skateparks board of directors. Burnside is the birth of the d. I. Y. Skatepark movement. Since all the skateparks in the 70s closed down, almost all of them, there was a rebirth in the 90s largely due to here. Reporter all of this started without knowledge, sanction or Financial Assistance from the city. And that very first pour was. Was where . Just the back wall back cornerstone is under pressure. We hear this all the time in brooklyn. We hear about it in austin and places like that, places that have real unique identities and spaces. Well, its kind of a weird situation. Spaces like burnside and spaces made by the artistic Creative Community are often the forefront, the first step of gentrification. And i personally am very aware of that. I see that burnside came into the neighborhood, cleaned it up, but it remained an industrial neighborhood up until recently. And thats about to change, along with much of portland. Were just trying to hold onto what we have at this point. Reporter now looming above gritty burnside, a sleek, new modern living space and a sign of a changing city. Known simply as yard, the 284 luxury apartment rentals are advertised as a place where friends gather to unwind, Exchange Ideas and make new connections. There is parking for electric cars, its fitted with an eco friendly roof and each apartment will have a bike rack. But developer Jeff Pickhardt says the plan for this new living space always envisioned a peaceful coexistence with burnside. When we bought the lot, we had to have a conversation about scaling the skate park back. And then, what happens when the building goes up and how do we phase the skate park back in . So, initially, a bit contentious. We wanted to tread lightly on the work that they had done. You know, theyve been here for 25 years, and were the new guys on the block. I mean, 25 years ago, imagine this place. It was. It was blighted 25 years ago. Reporter the mixed use residential tower is another turn in portlands move from its industrial past to 21st century hipster haven, another chapter in this citys redevelopment. During the past three years, United Van Lines reports moving more people to oregon than any other state in the country. At the same time, portland rents have been experiencing the highest percentage growth rates among the nations top 50 housing markets. People are moving here en masse. There are cranes in the sky everywhere. Where does this little tiny bit of real estate fit within whats happening here . Yeah, i think the interest in portland right now is the authenticity. And i think the skate park is authenticity sort of at the max. And for people to come in and do this work without a permit originally and create what theyve created and have it stand the test of time, it says a lot. And it says a lot about a community thats willing to go along with that, too. Reporter with the arrival of yard, burnside did not lose any Square Footage of the skatepark, but they did lose some sunlight. In return, the developer agreed to install lights in the park to compensate for the light lost by the highrise. Jeff has worked with us to a large degree, and were thankful of that. It could be a lot worse. That being said, im still. Nothings set in concrete if you forgive the pun until its there, you know . So, well. You know. Reporter jeff said he thinks you guys, what you have built is far more culturally important than a building. Do you agree with that . Its hard to convey the importance of burnside to anyone in the nonskateboard world, but its incredibly important worldwide. Reporter and you did it yourselves . Yeah, and its our spot. We continue to build. Reporter tenants began moving into yard this past july, and soon after a spa and Wellness Club opened it doors. According to the building, a restaurant is set to open next year selling a new burnside burger, of which partial proceeds will to go to the skatepark. Sreenivasan south dakota is a rural state that is more than 85 white, with only small percentages of native american, black, latino and asian residents. However, the demographics in some towns are changing due to a new wave of immigration, with consequences for local economies. Once again, newshour weekends Christopher Booker reports in this story we first brought you in july. Reporter at dakota provisions, a turkey Processing Plant in huron, south dakota, worker nyo maung takes only a second and a half to remove the tail of a turkey. With his electric knife, he completes 40 cuts a minute and 2,400 every hour. Huron is a small city of 13,000 residents halfway between sioux falls and the state capital, pierre. More than 40 turkey farms supply the plant, which distributes meat all over the u. S. It runs like an auto Factory Assembly line, with about a thousand workers processing 20,000 turkeys a day. That adds up to 200 Million Pounds of turkey meat a year. And no one is faster with his blade than nyo maung. Mark smokey heuston is the companys Human Resources director. The foreman was saying that theyve actually noticed when hes on vacation that the productivity levels go down, the yields go down. Thats correct. Reporter on average, floor ound 13 an hour. Maung make since the plant opened in 2005, its been a constant struggle to find and retain enough people from south dakota willing to work in meatpacking. Immigrants help fill the gap. Were able to keep our turnover down to the 15 and 20 a year range, which is four or five times less than the National Average for the meatpacking plants. Reporter like nyo maung, most workers here are karen, an ethnic minority from myanmar, formerly known as burma. Between 2005 and 2014, a u. S. Resettlement program admitted 73,000 refugees from myanmar, long governed by a military dictatorship, until last year. Heuston began recruiting the refugees in 2007, when, during a trip to st. Paul, minnesota, a magnet for refugees from myanmar, he met a small group of karen people willing to move to huron. Nine years later, through word of mouth and family ties, what started with three has expanded to more than 600 karen workers. Without the karen people, we probably would not be able to run the turkey plant. Reporter why not . People just dont want to move to rural america. The local young people are going out to see the rest of the world. The karen people have seen the rest of the world, and theyve had enough of the rest of the world. The karen come here for exactly the same reasons that our ancestors came here, and thats to be free. Reporter nyo maung arrived here in 2012. Why did you decide to move to huron as opposed to st. Paul or indiana or another place in the United States . Why huron . translated the reason that i chose huron is because my relatives live here. One of my relatives or siblings, they arrived here before. Reporter but the karen are only part of the story. Roughly 16 of the plants workforce is from latin america. The plants diversity has transformed huron and surrounding beadle county, bringing the citys population back up to numbers not seen since 1980 while reducing the median age by five years. We were maybe one of the pioneers in our area to embrace some of the immigration. Reporter brooke sydow is Workforce Development coordinator for the city of huron. We want to see south dakota grow, and were not seeing the traditional white middleclass american come back to a rural place. Its just not happening. And so, were embracing whatevers coming our way versus trying to bar up and say, we cant help you. Lets say, okay, come here. How can we help you . reporter with 46 of the k 12 students being of asian or latino descent, helping means expanding the schools english as a Second Language Program and hiring a certified e. S. L. Instructor for every grade. The city also added more plots to this community garden, believing the space would allow new and old residents to get to know one another. And the city also helps new arrivals with housing needs. With the help of hurons james Valley Housing group and the u. S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development program, nyo maung was able to buy this 137,000 fourbedroom house with no money down. You have decided to stay in huron . translated forever, always. The rest of my life. I will not go to any other places. I dont know where else to go. Ill stay here. Weve always been a working class community, and theres always been different groups of people that have come through and kind of lived and worked in the community. And with the karen population, they fit in really well within our community. We have a huge familybased orientation. Theyre familybased, were familybased, so they fit in well. Reporter even though there were some minor culture clashes at first mark heuston tells a story about a karen family raising a few eyebrows after they started laying some fish out to dry in their neighbors backyard sydow says the town is more than willing to do what is needed to make immigrants feel welcome. If that means putting up another restaurant or if that means changing the e. S. L. Program, trying to help with community integration, thats what were going to do. Reporter you guys are open for business . Were open for business, and thats what sets us apart from other communities. This is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. Sreenivasan over the last few decades, an invasive crab native to europe has been making its way up the west coast of the United States. As Katie Campbell of seattle pbs station kcts 9 and the environmental journalism collaboration earthfix reports, there is an effort to see just how many of these invaders are lurking in the water. Reporter emily grason and Sean Mcdonald are on a hunt. Theyre scouring this salt marsh on San Juan Island in puget sound, in search of a threeinch menace the European Green crab. This was the location where our volunteer crew found a single adult male, and this is the First Sighting along washingtons inland shores. Reporter theyve set hundreds of baited traps to try to prevent invasive green crabs from setting up a colony. It might seem like its crazy for us to have such an intense trapping effort for just a single crab being found, but these crabs do tend to show up in numbers. And where theres one, theres often more. Reporter green crabs are considered one of the worst global invaders. From their home shores of europe, green crabs have spread to south africa, brazil, australia and both coasts of north america. They are voracious predators, able to crack open clams and mussels. On the east coast, their numbers have been on the rise. Theyve wreaked havoc on the ecosystem and devastated maines softshell clam industry. The only effective tool we have for eliminating green crab is trapping. Reporter but for the time being, theres hope. After three days, their traps come up empty. Now, i have a little bit more confidence that there is not tons of crabs hiding in pockets of this marsh. There is always that voice in that back of your head that will go, did you look everywhere . There is really no way to know. Reporter theyll be back the coming months to search some more. Sreenivasan in a Statement Released late today by president elect Donald Trumps transition team, mr. Trump announced that he intends to dissolve the donald j. Trump foundation. Mr. Trump said that while the foundation has done what he calls enormous good works over the years, he was acting to avoid even the appearance of any conflict with my role as president. The foundation has been controversial and is currently under investigation by the new York State Attorney general. In 2015, the foundation had net assets of 1. 1 million. Thats all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. Im hari sreenivasan. Thanks for watching. Captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org pbs newshour weekend is made possible by bernard and irene schwartz. Judy and josh weston. The cheryl and Philip Milstein family. The john and Helen Glessner family trust supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. 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